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In the far west, where cliffs fall to restless sea and the wind carves stories through stone, she still walks. The Cailleach Bhéarra – storm-maker, bone-keeper, sculptor of time – strides through the centuries, her footsteps echoing in rock and salt. She is winter’s voice and the fierce midwife of endings, calling us to remember what the old rites once taught - how to age without fear, to surrender without shame, to be remade in the dark. She comes in many forms – shapeshifter, sovereign, psychopomp, protector, and fierce bearer of truth – moving through mountain mist and breaking wave, turning the seasons with her staff. To walk with her is to meet the edge of what you thought you could endure and find, there, a deeper strength rising from bone and earth. This self-paced online programme is a rare and original work – a 45,000-word mythopoetic descent into the ancestral figure of the Cailleach. Woven over decades by a Bantry native – where her presence endures in stone, sea, and storm – it gathers Irish folklore, cosmology, psychology, and ritual to restore her story to living memory. Through thirteen chapters, we follow her from Samhain to Imbolc – through tempest and stillness – guided by elemental wisdom, myth, and practice. Each chapter opens a doorway into the old world: full-length retellings, fire-lit rituals, and reflections on what it means to stand at life’s turning point. In an age that has forgotten its elders and fled its initiations, the Cailleach returns as a necessary force – the one who teaches us to bear truth, to honour decay, and to walk with the dignity of those who have weathered everything. This is not a borrowed myth – it is a homecoming. A soul-tending journey for those ready to walk with the Old One, to meet the dark with reverence, and to emerge remade. Let her guide you. Let her bless your bones.